Keto For Mental Health Expert Panel Discussion
Ketogenic therapy, often in the form of a keto diet, is an emerging treatment for various mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and more. A group of expert clinicians, researchers, and individuals with lived experience met to discuss ketosis and metabolic psychiatry at the 8th Global Symposium on Ketogenic Therapies in Coronado, California. In this video, you can learn valuable insight about using metabolic and ketogenic therapies to improve mental health. Featured in this video: Dr. Shebani Sethi https://profiles.stanford.edu/shebani... Twitter/X: @ShebaniMD Dr. Iain Campbell https://www.bipolarketostudy.com/ Twitter/X: @IainCampbellPhD Nicole Laurent https://mentalhealthketo.com/nicole-l... Twitter/X: @KetoCounselor MJ Leman https://www.dbsalliance.org/our-team/... Follow our channel for more information and education from Bret Scher, MD, FACC, including interviews with leading experts in Metabolic Psychiatry. Learn more about metabolic psychiatry and find helpful resources at https://metabolicmind.org/ About us: Metabolic Mind is a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group working to transform the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health. We leverage the science of metabolic psychiatry and personal stories to offer education, community, and hope to people struggling with mental health challenges and those who care for them. Our channel is for informational purposes only. We are not providing individual or group medical or healthcare advice nor establishing a provider-patient relationship. Many of the interventions we discuss can have dramatic or potentially dangerous effects if done without proper supervision. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your lifestyle or medications. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:54 About Baszucki Group 7:26 Introduction to the panelists 16:20 How lived experience informs research for ketogenic therapy 19:47 Ketogenic therapy as a treatment for bipolar depression 20:49 One experience using keto for mental health 24:43 Designing ketogenic therapy research to impact clinical practice 26:45 How keto helps with psychiatric medication side effects 27:58 How to emotionally support someone using ketogenic therapy 35:18 Advice for supporting ketogenic therapy clinical trial patients 39:04 Parallels between ketogenic therapy for epilepsy and mental illness 40:31 Ketogenic therapy adherence & measuring ketone levels 45:31 Why do we need clinical trials for ketogenic therapy? 50:39 Keto for depression and eating disorders 53:59 Timeframe of seeing benefit from ketogenic therapy 56:09 Buy-in from others in the academic and psychiatric communities 57:49 Non-responders to keto for mental health 59:13 Treating substance abuse with ketogenic diet 1:00:55 Exogenous ketones 1:04:39 Conclusion #MetabolicMind #KetoForMentalHealth #MetabolicPsychiatry #Bipolar #MetabolicNeuroscience #KetogenicMetabolicTherapy #NutritionalKetosis #MentalIllness #Bipolar #Keto
